Heterdaad

- Season 3

(1998)

A baby girl is found in the toilets of a train station in a poor state. A man is seen looking suspicious, but is lost in the crowd. She dies in hospital. A man calls the hospital before the child dies. The man from the train station attacks Claude Adams, but is disturbed by a passer-by. The police starts asking questions, because a disturbance was reported in the neighborhood. Adams says he saw nothing, but the police have their suspicions and follow him. They come to an apartment which appears to be used by Adams. Among the waste they find baby stuff. The unknown man...

Colette Burgraeve is found dead in a furniture warehouse. At first they can't find her second shoe and her handbag. They question her husband. He tells them she often went with her friend Marleen to Brussels. He says Colette would never betray him. Marleen says she phoned Colette that day, because they would go to Brussels, but she never answered. The police find Collette's panties in the warehouse and they also find out that her last meal contained oysters and champagne. A bit strange for just a day out. Then they find her handbag with a pager in it. They question ...

Captain Capellen's attempt to divide the old team nearly succeeds in breaking up gay Willy Martens and his straight partner Reggie Bax. Matti Tomassetti is jealous when she realizes her husband, car salesman Vic, spends time networking at parties with his boss's sexy friends Wim and Yolande Zimmerman. When Wim is reported missing and the corps in his burnt-out car carries his papers, Matti's suspicions and illegal 'tenacity' arouse major procedure problems. Retired dog act circus artist Richardke's refusal to testify what he saw is key to this case and a related next ...

Brussels antique-dealer Fischer cries for help after being robbed by two masked men. Willy and Reggie arrive in time to start a gunfight, but can't arrest either robber. The captain uses this as another excuse to side-track the gay detective in therapy and sharpshooting training. Passerby Tom Duprez, who tried to help Fisher, was coldly shot dead by Guy Renquin, who later terminates his junior Eddy, who got wounded badly but is denied medical help. Dodgy former P.I. André Lamotte saw everything, finds the fence and demands a hefty informer's free from the police. ...

Ex-con Luc Paulus firmly resents any comment from her teacher Hilde De Bont about his good-for-nothing daughter Katrien's alcohol abuse and other oddities such as lots of cash. Tibo resisted his lover Nadia's saucily abusive demand to abuse police authority to lean on Paulus. Shortly after, his skull is smashed fatally. The team suspects former jail-mate Martin Coopman, now his partner in a window cleaning business, who actually fired him recently. Then they discover family and intimate secrets, yielding more suspects to be eliminated by alibi or forensics.

Reputable lawyer Piron and his junior apprentice Struye competently win a case by exposing arrogant detective John's procedural errors. The next night, Struye is murdered at a crime scene. The prosecutor wisely guards the delicate case's ethics and invites the bar association's chief to supervise the confidentiality aspects. The team discovers various tensions within the law firm, such as the secretary having switched lovers to Strye from the junior partner Claes, and Piron's own possibly dodgy past.

Electrician Eddy Vosberg is found hanging, a poorly staged 'suicide'. The team soon realizes he ran up crushing debts as a compulsive gambler. His family knew, but it's unclear how they tried to square loyalty with the interests of the family electric appliances business.

During a drug trade stake-out, Willy and Reggie mess up again during improvised urination but accidentally discover the corpse of retired cinema usher Agnes. She was shot with a Word War II gun. She was the never accepted daughter of a soldier and a posh Brussels family's matriarch who never even tolerated her name. Yet the team works out several members knew about her and/or had contact. Facsism-sympathetic antiquarian Dieter van Hoeck competently researched her past and proved her pa wasn't a Canadian liberation soldier but a Nazi subaltern during the occupation. ...

(Part 1 of 2) Old veterinarian Urbain Van Overbeke, one of the most influential men is his Brabant cattle village, is murdered and dumped in a canal, expertly cut into pieces with professional equipment. Young vet Frank Leuridon was after Urbain's clientèle and is rumored to have an affair with his daughter Dominique. Farmer Ronnie Ceulemans threatened publicly to kill him for officially disapproving his cattle, which he administered illegal hormones supplied by Frank, who insists they are health-safe. Ronie poisoned Urbain's horses with laurel in the night of the ...

When all the carved-up parts of Van Overbeke's corps are finally found, the autopsy mysteriously shows no violent or other specific cause for his fatal heart failure. The team discovers Frank Leuridon had an adulterous mistress but still no alibi. Her alcoholic husband MD Weyns's violent reaction gets Tibo injected with a fast-working and -broken-down poison, which fits the autopsy. Van Overbeke's private life proves relevantly sanctimonious.